Heat Treating And Surface Engineering

Proceedings of the International Congress held Sept. 1988. General topics covered by short papers include: surface modification modeling of heat treatment processes, quenching and hardenability, physical metallurgy and heat treatment, surface heat treatment, and energy and equipment. No index. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Heat treatment and surface engineering are seen as critical elements in the design and manufacture of strategic components in a wide range of market sectors and industries including air, sea and land transportation, energy production, mining, defense or agriculture. Heat treating is a group of industrial and metalworking processes used to alter the physical, and sometimes chemical, properties of a material. The most common application is metallurgical. Heat treatments are also used in the manufacture of many other materials, such as glass. Heat treatment involves the use of heating or chilling, normally to extreme temperatures, to achieve a desired result such as hardening or softening of a material. Heat treatment techniques include annealing, case hardening, precipitation strengthening, tempering, normalizing and quenching. It is noteworthy that while the term heat treatment applies only to processes where the heating and cooling are done for the specific purpose of altering properties intentionally, heating and cooling often occur incidentally during other manufacturing processes such as hot forming or welding. Heat Treatment - Conventional and Novel Applications deals a broad review of contemporary global developments in an application of thermal and thermochemical processing to modify the microstructure and properties of a wide range of engineering materials. A blend of conventional and novel applications, discovering a variety of processes employing heating, quenching and thermal diffusion, makes the book immense useful for a broad audience of researchers and engineers from academia and industry.

An in-depth exploration of the effects of different steels, heat treatments, and edge geometries on knife performance. This book provides ratings for toughness, edge retention, and corrosion resistance for all of the popular knife steels. Micrographs of over 50 steels. Specific recommended heat treatments for each steel. And answers to questions like: 1) Does a thinner or thicker edge last longer? 2) What heat treatment leads to the best performance? 3) Are there performance benefits to forging blades? 4) Should I use stainless or carbon steel? All of these questions and more are answered by a metallurgist who grew up around the knife industry.

This proceedings volume contains 101 papers from an October 2002 meeting, detailing advances in case hardening processes, corrosion protection and tribological coatings, laser processes, characterization, modeling, quenching, nano-materials, thermal spray, residual stress, and manufacturing equipmen

Engineers are faced with a bewildering array of choices when selecting a surface treatment for a specific corrosion or wear application. This book provides practical information to help them select the best possible treatment. An entire chapter is devoted to process comparisons, and dozens of useful tables and figures compare surface treatment thickness and hardness ranges; abrasion and corrosion resistance; processing time, temperature, and pressure; costs; distortion tendencies; and other critical process factors and coating characteristics. The chapter Practical Guidelines for Surface Engin.